Mentored undergraduate students and helped to increase their academic confidence and to gain skills in both coursework and research

Dec 2003 - May 2004

Research Associate

Virginia Tech Applied Biosciences Center

Designed and built a device called 'smart' bed to non-intrusively monitor patient respiration, heart rate and movement through an integrated system of dual-output fiber optics sensors, a CCD camera, a wireless data transmitter and receiver and a laptop

Achieved data collection, processing and visualization with a self-programmed software using Visual C++, and analyzed data with MATLAB

Demonstrated the patient monitoring system for clinical trials at Carilion Clinic Sleep Center in Roanoke, VA

Certifications

Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC)

Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS)

The 'smart' bed device interface

Signal is automatically rescaled when perturbing the fiber optic sensor.

This is the interface of the patient monitoring device I developed for my Master's thesis. It shows the real-time outputs of a fiber optic sensor and dual signal variations based on different modulating theories.